Quotes About Truth

I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.

The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

We can't let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It's hard for me to lie, I'd stumble with my words if I tried to lie.

To insist that belief in the Bible demands belief in a young Earth is to put a stumbling block in the path of many nonbelievers. It raises the question of why a God who is committed to revealing truth would make the universe and Earth measure to be old if, in fact, they are not.

The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.

I love doing stunts. I'm dedicated to stunts, in fact. I really find that that brings me even closer to a physical truth about my character that I enjoy being a part of. I love doing that stuff.

No actor does all his own stunts, no matter what he says.

There's a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

The reality of climate change is a stupid thing to argue about.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the truth. Chris Rock. I love Chris Rock. He's funny, but he's also poignant. He's not there just to make people laugh; he's there to make people wake up, too.

You might be able to mimic other styles but what's important is that you are true to who you are. You have to find your own voice.

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.